Arctic reindeer
Appearance
Arctic reindeer | |
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Extinct (1900)
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Cervidae |
Subfamily: | Capreolinae |
Genus: | Rangifer |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | †R. t. eogroenlandicus
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Trinomial name | |
†Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus |
The Arctic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus eogroenlandicus), also known as the East Greenland reindeer or Greenland reindeer was a subspecies of reindeer (or caribou), that lived in eastern Greenland. It has been extinct since 1900.
References
- ^ https://www.jstor.org/pss/1380173, American Society of Mammalogists, consulted on May 27, 2010.